Memo # 3 ~ Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran “What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire. We do no…… Read more “Memo #3 ~”
Marx & Foucault Meditation
I was going to write a piece I could be proud of this week. Something perhaps with a twinge of the intellectual child hiding out in my…… Read more “Marx & Foucault Meditation”
Rain
c. Mary Kathryn Gough
Heidegger Journal #7
Journal # 7 (3/5/04) A “fore-having” as Heidegger uses the term here is what you bring with you to an experience that allows you to interpret it.…… Read more “Heidegger Journal #7”
Heidegger Journal #5
Journal # 5 (2/27/04) Heidegger addresses those who make objections to environmental experience based on its presupposition of the reality of the external world by explaining why…… Read more “Heidegger Journal #5”
Augustine & Plato on Happiness of Soul… (II)
Although Augustine was strongly influenced by Plato, the two have clearly different ideas of what constitutes human Happiness. For Plato, justice, or psychic harmony, is the dominant…… Read more “Augustine & Plato on Happiness of Soul… (II)”
Plato on Happiness of Soul…
Is the just person truly happier than the unjust person? In his comparative thesis, Plato never directly addresses what happiness is, but by analyzing certain definitions that…… Read more “Plato on Happiness of Soul…”
From For the Light
Solstice There is little snow on the ground when you begin your morning walk on this the shortest day of the year. This is the season of…… Read more “From For the Light”
Beauty
It’s pouring in clear sheets outside in the dark, and the trees’ branches are like many arms in a wild dance with the wind… The sound of…… Read more “Beauty”
Gender in Greek Mythology
Gender in Greek Mythology Greek mythology has been thought of as entirely patriarchal and denigrating to women. It is easy to see why. Many of the most…… Read more “Gender in Greek Mythology”
The Papacy in the Middle Ages
While this is not my best paper on merit of its writing style alone, I believe it to be a topic worth deep consideration… * ~ *…… Read more “The Papacy in the Middle Ages”
:Scarred Sky Weeping:
this cool breeze reaches me through crAcked this window, freshly filled my lungs, with oxgyen-laden truths. my ears taste tiny drops of rain — so many millions…… Read more “:Scarred Sky Weeping:”
Heidegger Journal # 4
In Analysis of the Structure of Experience, Heidegger seeks to examine the question, “Is there something?” and to show that the lived experience of this question (“deliberately…… Read more “Heidegger Journal # 4”
Oedipus the King
Mary Kathryn Huffman (married: Gough) / Classical Mythology (231) / Fall ’02 / Professor Winkle Oedipus the King Oedipus the King is a masterful work in which…… Read more “Oedipus the King”
Kant Journal # 1
Mary Kathryn Huffman (Married: Gough) / Kant Journal One / 2/17/04 Hardy A Priori Synthetic Judgments Kant wanted to make clear some defining lines in the muddiness…… Read more “Kant Journal # 1”
an abandoned subversion
… watching Fellowship of the Ring — thinking that we desperately need to keep alive certain fictions in our lives. The ones which invigorate our hearts to…… Read more “an abandoned subversion”
The Night House. . .
Every day the body works in the fields of the world mending a stone wall or swinging a sickle through the tall grass— the grass of civics,…… Read more “The Night House. . .”
Empire Ruling Techniques
1Marykathryn Huffman (mar: Gough) / 2/16/06 J. Bratt / Essay 1; STBR 372 Ruling Techniques of the British Empire After losing Calais in France in 1558, England’s…… Read more “Empire Ruling Techniques”
Idiolalia 